Climbing up durian trees and tapping each fruit to check for ripeness pays VND50-100 million ($1,960-3,920) a month, but the job is not for everyone.

From dawn to midnight, Huang Qijun nurtures and tends to 10,056 durian trees, every day. By late March, the mild weather in China’s southernmost province of Hainan – with occasional overcast ...

Because of the short duration of tasty ripeness, durians are expensive, and purchasing one is a solemn, smelly ritual: only by odor can one determine whether a durian is truly ripe. Not ...

Digitalisation solutions, like artificial intelligence (AI), are also being mooted for durian grading, sorting and segment scanning. As an automation solutions provider, Vepro’s managing ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Just one 2.5-kilogram durian from Nonthaburi, Thailand, can cost $380. Yet the fruit has a smell that some people find extremely unpleasant.

The government is looking to expand durian exports to China -- Thailand's biggest buyer of the fruit -- and has asked Chinese authorities to relax chemical contamination screening of Thai durians ...